Carnage and Hyperbole in American Education

It is time to stop overdramatizing the present condition of American education. To hear some people tell it, going to school in this country is like taking a subway ride in Calcutta during a smallpox outbreak. In his inauguration speech on Friday, Donald Trump used schools as evidence of national decay: Americans want great schools …

If at First You Don’t Succeed . . . There have been a lot of reform efforts aimed at improving student achievement in urban schools. Over the past twenty years, administrators, policymakers, and philanthropists have tried idea after idea to fix what ails schools in high poverty neighborhoods. Depending on the trend and collective wisdom …

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Addressing Poverty: The Non-Reform Reform Model for Urban Schools